This Fall in Texas was fantastic. It wasn't too cool, but we did have a few cool mornings. Maggie was still wearing shorts to school and once in a while, she would wear her little sweater jacket. Matt and I joked when I asked him "how are you liking being in Texas so far?" He says "It's Nov. 1st and I'm wearing shorts." Then, I said, "yes, it's great - but two years from now, we'll be saying, it's Nov. 1st and it's still 80 degrees." Things are great but definitely a little different. One big difference this year was what we hoped would be an annual trip to the pumpkin patch with Maggie. We went around mid October to what was advertised as a pumpkin patch. What it turned out to be was just a bunch of pumpkins. It wasn't quite like the pumpkin patches we were used to in Illinois and Indiana. Last year, we cut our pumpkin from the vine. This year we picked it from a stack among stacks.
Our main goal was to take a similar shot to this picture - the one we took of Maggie in Fall of 2007 when she was about 4 months old.
As you can see from the pictures, she was having none of that. She was far more content to run around. We finally snapped a few okay photos while she rode in the wagon with the pumpkins.
We did have a fun time though, and the pumpkin patch at her school was a bit better. They imported pumpkins and placed them around a field so it was a bit more like a patch, but not quite. Her class visited the patch the same day they had their hayride and trip to the haymaze, also at her school. Maggie ran around again, but finally did pick a pumpkin her size. Matt had finished his contract job the day before and didn't start his new job until Monday so he joined us for the festivities. We had such a fun time with Maggie, her teachers, and her classmates and their parents. It was a tad chilly that morning - around 60 degrees so everyone was bundled up pretty good.
